Telegram-herald., 1887-04-11
LEIRISRAESnEjIEt
lff&IEs 70 TM taAGs BILL.
Liberal UsioslsEs Floe<ing TO the Gssd-
sfoaszn Gamp-t t41pssui tseme Rul-
ers-E Drastic Sketch q ftar-
mar the Ne. lndsr
Secretary.

i5osroz. April IA. J. Cssney esb'ss 70
sas ltsssif tr.,sa Dabl.a zs folloxs. When
iess Loadoa ca Tsgrsiay essalas tie sgsss-
tiaa ssalasI he Coercion ~. Vas ia laal
swin<. Up % tAsL sin.e BAT one meeting ia
EaS.Aad bsd bssa hesd in fzyor u the si.l
and about thrss hundred sgaiass Il, and the
pgosasc. ~zs lhal shis proportion would be
nalasAlnsd 70 the cad. Tie dsEasaas from
LIBERAL organizations for Irish mrmbers
as sfeaksrs were - numerous tllzt
~ Was impossible 10 comply
With one l0grth of them. and those dSai4nas
come from not merely one or tSa districts
81 6reat Britain. but from every quarter Of
the ls.and. Many of tue requests we're pc
ccliar AMI suggestive. being TOR Irisa mem
3ess only sho have been ia jail. Ine laset-
iDgs. E.oreoyrf, are very large anu enthusl-
askIc. anal altogether. tue agitation prom
sses 70 be more IKE The great bulgarian asi-
terion OF 1879 than anY oDe that has since
occurred ia tbs. country. IL . almost certain
tn1t while the LIBERAL Union leaders are
chiefly TO blame. not only iof the insroduc-
ti0a OF the Coercion oili but also FOR is
nio.t drastic provisions. very many, II not
the majority. OF the rank aud Ilic OF the
pzrty are simply quaking IN their shoes al
the certain result Of their scii0n. result
clearly torssaaaowed BY the Wholesale pas
sing over Of taeir principal supporters
IN the country 10 the Gizdstoniaa
campaign. The Coercion bill, there
fore. hica was intended finally
% trimp cut the House Rule movement
ootn IN Engiand and Ireland has really teen
and will be the greatest service set rendered
20 the Irish. Nothing else could have SAD
etIrctuziiy conducted 10 tue rapid conver-
sion 10 Home Rule views OF The waveTing
section OF the Liberals whose aid alone Is
warting 10 the rapid and complete success
ol the Glacstonian policy. Ihe appoint
ment of hsng Hsrman 70 the post OF Under
Secretary Tor ireland in Pariia
ment if il has really been
made viii be another powerful
factor working in the same direction. Such
al appointments completely danns .ae Coy
ernment as mere partisan instrument of
the landlords aud the Orangemen. and that
too, OF the most reckless and dsreputabIe
seciion OF the landlord party. King Har-
man began IS Il Home Ruler. he was, in
fact. the first Home Ruler returned TO Par
lament from an Irish constituency
under that title and he re-
mslnes one. in appearance at least.
until the electors of Sligo having found
that he was more OF landlord than a
Home Ruler, turned him out ia favor OF
from the NatiOnslists, he became an Orange.
man and since that he has figured in that
CAPACITY without doing any service 10 him
self o. his new found allies. His character
as landlord may be Judged from the fact
that last Winter mis- rents were reduced by
the law courts by about fifty per cent
TO set such man over any department
of IRISH affairs IS TO proclaim In effect that
the Government simply exists for the land
lords. and not, as is pretended for the
Union, and under the circumstances il is
not wonderful that some Liberal Unionists
are today agcast al the possibility oisecil,
an event. Here, aud IN Ireland, the advice
of the editor of the Iiaif Hal Ga-eisc.
given today in the leading Irish papers,
70 hold indignation meetings all< over
the country next Sunday: has caused great
interest, ard will probably be acted upon
extensively. III those meetings are held.
some English members will speak at them,
and here may add, that If tue bill passes.
several English members will come over
here and make the sort Of speeches which
il is intended To prevent the Irish members
from making in future. This. of course,
viii introduce a new and interesting COM
plicsrion, with possible results OF the most
important character. Meanwhile. several
demonstration, are arranged tor next week.
among others three in Ulster. at which
John Dillon is to speak on the new Land
bill